HOUSTON, Texas, Oct. 3, 2012 -- Marybeth Brennan Scheinbaum, a well-known community activist in Panama who founded a business to help indigenous artisans, died in Houston, Texas, on Tuesday, October 2.

NEW YORK -- Pat Slesinger grew up on Central Park West when a five-bedroom apartment rented for $500 a month, when Cherries Jubilee at the 21 Club was $2.50, when there were no credit cards and people of means were simply trusted. It was a time when Manhattan was the center of the world in manufacturing, fashion, society, theatre and literary achievement - and her family was at the center of it all.